tinselly
AmericanEtymology
Origin of tinselly
Example Sentences
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It’s a magpie movie that’s happy to give audiences the tinselly things they want — i.e., two robots clobbering the Wi-Fi out of each other.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025
“Upstairs” meant the museum’s fourth and fifth floors, where “Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle,” on view through Feb. 19, is currently offering perhaps the city’s most glittery, tinselly, witty display of bling this holiday season.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2022
They were a bit cringeworthy, I thought, but I wanted a tinselly, childlike vibe for an evening house party.
From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2022
A tiny Norfolk spruce sits in a pot on the windowsill, oppressed with some outsize tinselly stars.
From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2010
In some worldly respects, I was still a child: I cared little for its pomps, its small honors, its puny efforts, its tinselly displays.
From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by Simms, William Gilmore
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